Research Fraud Uncovered

A medical researcher and professor, who had been working most recently at Ohio State University, is facing federal charges in what prosecutors say was a sophisticated scheme to transfer U.S.-backed research to China. Song Guo Zheng and his research groups secured more than $4.3 million dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health for projects while receiving overlapping funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Columbus.